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<h3 class="section">5.2 Miscellaneous Types</h3>

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<dt><code>b <var>type-information</var> ; <var>bytes</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Pascal space type.  This is documented by IBM; what does it mean?
</p>
<p>This use of the &lsquo;<samp>b</samp>&rsquo; type descriptor can be distinguished
from its use for builtin integral types (see <a href="Builtin-Type-Descriptors.html#Builtin-Type-Descriptors">Builtin Type Descriptors</a>) because the character following the type descriptor is
always a digit, &lsquo;<samp>(</samp>&rsquo;, or &lsquo;<samp>-</samp>&rsquo;.
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<dt><code>B <var>type-information</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>A volatile-qualified version of <var>type-information</var>.  This is
a Sun extension.  References and stores to a variable with a
volatile-qualified type must not be optimized or cached; they
must occur as the user specifies them.
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<dt><code>d <var>type-information</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>File of type <var>type-information</var>.  As far as I know this is only used
by Pascal.
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<dt><code>k <var>type-information</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>A const-qualified version of <var>type-information</var>.  This is a Sun
extension.  A variable with a const-qualified type cannot be modified.
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<dt><code>M <var>type-information</var> ; <var>length</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Multiple instance type.  The type seems to composed of <var>length</var>
repetitions of <var>type-information</var>, for example <code>character*3</code> is
represented by &lsquo;<samp>M-2;3</samp>&rsquo;, where &lsquo;<samp>-2</samp>&rsquo; is a reference to a
character type (see <a href="Negative-Type-Numbers.html#Negative-Type-Numbers">Negative Type Numbers</a>).  I&rsquo;m not sure how this
differs from an array.  This appears to be a Fortran feature.
<var>length</var> is a bound, like those in range types; see <a href="Subranges.html#Subranges">Subranges</a>.
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<dt><code>S <var>type-information</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Pascal set type.  <var>type-information</var> must be a small type such as an
enumeration or a subrange, and the type is a bitmask whose length is
specified by the number of elements in <var>type-information</var>.
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<p>In CHILL, if it is a bitstring instead of a set, also use the &lsquo;<samp>S</samp>&rsquo;
type attribute (see <a href="String-Field.html#String-Field">String Field</a>).
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<dt><code>* <var>type-information</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Pointer to <var>type-information</var>.
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